Disappearing Stories

ABOUT PROJECT

“Disappearing Stories” is a miniseries based on real-life tales of senior citizens, created in the format of Instagram stories. Each episode disappears after 24 hours – just like the lives of residents at nursing homes melt away without our attention.

Millions of senior citizens in nursing homes live in oblivion. They need our attention to sustain their will to live. But young people are not interested; they perceive elderly people in nursing homes as irrelevant, devoid of any interest, insignificant.

So we decided to tell the stories of elderly people in a way that’s relevant to a young audience – by using Instagram as a medium.

We posted 9 episodes as separate Instagram stories. The videos carry a powerful message and invite viewers to share the stories as a way of keeping them “alive”, and encourages young people to volunteer in nursing homes. Unless shared, our stories disappear forever, just like elderly people do.

One of the key challenges we faced was filming the series in the Instagram stories native format. We prepared thoroughly, carried out research with real-life heroes – and then filmed all of this in a vertical format.

Total reach 38,5M+

More volunteer applications 7 TIMES

Views 12,5M+

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Film Festivals & Awards

Disappearing Stories

2020, web-series

T.O. Web Fest (Toronto, Canada) Best Web Series

New Media Film Festival (LA, USA) Grand-Prix

Berlin Web Fest (Berlin, Germany) Best Drama, Best Cinematography

Montreal Digital Web Fest (Montreal, Canada) Best Director

Asia Web Awards (Seoul, South Korea) Best Web Series of All Genres

Baltimore Next Media Web Fest (Baltimore, USA) Best Drama

Sicily Web Fest (Sicily, Italy) Best Screenplay

CLAM Catalonia Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain) Best Film

Rio Web Fest (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, Best Sound

“Break for Film” Festival (St.Petersburg, Russia) Special Prize

LAMPA International Film Festival (Perm, Russia) Special Prize “World without war”

Moscow Film Festival “Let’s live” (Moscow, Russia) Official Selection

Seriencamp Festival (Munich, Germany) Official Selection

NYC Web Series Festival (New York, USA) Official Selection

“Telemaniya” Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) Official Selection

Social Machinery Film Festival (Italy) Official Selection

Ozerov International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) Official Selection

Seoul Webfest (Seoul, South Korea) Official Selection

Social World Film Festival (Naples, Italy) Official Selection

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CREDITS

Creative & production: Mozga Studio

Creative directors: Oleg Ageychev, Andrew Ushakov

Art director: Alexander Chumachenko

Copywriter: Darya Ushakova

Directors: Oleg Ageychev, Alexander Gornovsky

Cinematographers: Dmitry Bagin, Sergey Baskoev

Executive producers: Alfiia Shakirzyanova, Tatyana Ernezax

Production designer: Ksenia Rogozhkina

Editor: Tatyana Ernezax

Colorist: Andrew Bushmin

Sound: Gavriil Biryulin, Alexander Kozharsky, Ivan Gusakov

Music: Alexander Muratovsky

CAST

Evgeny Tkachuk
Eldar Kalimulin
Alexey Vakarchuk
Yana Esipovich
Serafima Ogareva
Sonya Priss
Alisa Mironova
Fedor Pokrass
Julia Andreeva
Tatyana Mukhina
Evgenia Lykova
Anna Melnikova
Sergey Demidov
Rosa Shmukler
Ilya Pavlov
Alexey Boroshin
Valeria Orlova
Maria Furina
Sofya Mironova
Veronika Mironova

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